NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon E6460
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon E6460 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (23W vs 25W)
AMD Radeon E6460 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
128 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
Radeon E6460
+140%
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Apr 2011
GeForce 9M
Generation
Embedded
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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-
-
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792 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
160
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.400 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.800 GTexel/s
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-
-
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
23W
TDP
25W
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-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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-
-
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Caicos
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
E6460
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.37 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
